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Hermann Hesse, recipient of the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Calw, Wurttemberg. He was the second child of Johannes and Marie Hesse. He was educated at the Gymnasium in Bad Cannstatt. Later he worked as an apprentice in a bookshop.
Hesse wanted to be a poet from the age of 12. He published his first collection of poetry, ROMANTISCHE LIEDER (ROMANTIC SONGS), when he was 22. The same year he published his first prose collection, EINE STUNDE HINTER MITTERNACHT (AN HOUR BEHIND MIDNIGHT).
Hermann Hesse died in Montagnola in 1962.
CHRONOLOGY
1877 He was born in Calw, Wurttemberg.(July 2)
1881 He moved with his family to Basle.
1886 He returned to Calw with his family.
1890 He attended the preparatory school in Goppingen.
1891 He attended the Maulbronn Seminary.
1892 He attended the Gymnasium in Bad Cannstatt.
1894 He worked as an apprentice mechanic in a clock workshop.
1895 He worked as an apprentice in a Tubingen bookshop.
1899 ROMANTISCHE LIEDER (ROMANTIC SONGS); EINE STUNDE HINTER MITTERNACHT (AN HOUR BEHIND MIDNIGHT); He worked in a Basle bookshop.
1901 HINTERLASSENE SCHRIFTEN; GEDICHTE VON HERMANNE LAUSCHER
1902 GEDICHTE; His mother died.
1904 PETER CAMENZIND; He married Maria Bernoulli.; He was awarded the Bauernfeld Prize.
1905 His son, Bruno, was born.
1906 UNTERM RAD
1907 DIESSEITS
1908 NACHBARN
1909 His son, Heiner, was born.
1910 GERTRUD
1911 UNTERWEGS; His son, Martin, was born.
1912 UMWEGE; He moved with his family to Berne.
1913 AUS INDIEN
1914 ROSSHALDE; He worked for the Prisoners of War Welfare Organization.
1915 KNULP; AM WEG; MUSIK DES EINSAMEN
1916 SCHON IST DIE JUGEND; His father died.
1919 DEMIAN; KLEINER GARTEN; MARCHEN; ZARATHUSTRAS WIEDERKEHR; He moved to Montagnola.; He co-established the journal VIVOS VOCO.
1920 GEDICHTE DES MALERS; KLINGSORS LETZTER; WANDERUNG
1921 AUSGEWAHLTE GEDICHTE
1922 SIDDHARTHA
1923 SINCLAIRS NOTIZBUCH; He became a Swiss citizen.; He divorced Maria Bernoulli.
1924 He married Ruth Wenger.
1925 KURGAST
1926 BILDERBUCH; He was elected to the Prussian Academy of Writers.
1927 DIE NURNBERGER REISE; DER STEPPENWOLF; He divorced Ruth Wenger.
1928 BETRACHTUNGEN; KRISIS
1929 TROST DER NACHT; EINE BIBLIOTHEK DER WELTLITERATUR
1930 NARZISS AND GOLDMUND; He resigned from the Prussian Academy of Writers.
1931 He married Ninon Dolbin.
1932 DIE MORGENLANDFAHRT
1936 STUNDEN IM GARTEN; He was awarded the Gottfried Keller Prize.
1937 GEDENKBLATTER; NEUE GED ICHTE
1943 DAS GLASPERLENSPIEL
1945 TRAUMFAHRTE
1946 DANK AN GOETHE; KRIEG AND FRIEDEN; He was awarded the Frankfurt Goethe Prize.; He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1950 He was awarded the Wilhelm Raabe Prize.
1951 SPATE PROSA; BRIEFE
1952 GESAMMELTE DICHTUNGEN
1955 BESCHWORUNGEN; GESAMMELTE SCHRIFTEN; He received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
1962 He died in Montagnola. (August 9)
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